pushed through a group of abrgz rights protesters. the light was red and the truck got impatient and charged into the crowd. in los angeles, full house actress jodie sweetin was pushed to the ground by lapd, as abortion rights protesters attempted to block a major freeway there. so what was once a fight focused on the supreme court and roe v. wade has now splintered into thousands of fights scattered across the entire country. for instance, in louisiana today, a judge halted the ban there that was supposed to go into effect last friday. providers have resumed service there for now. but stay tuned. that will probably change in the future. bottom line, it is going to be a long legal and controversial road to sorting out who and where they can get abortions in america. you re absolutely right, miguel marquez reporting for us. thank you very much. let s dig deeper into all of this. joining us former federal judge nancy girtner, evan osnos, and
democratic senate candidate allegedly hit in the face by her republican rival in rhode island on friday. and in iowa a driver of a truck who hit abortion rights protesters. political violence can never be treated as normal on any so-called side. but if each side only highlights criminality by the other side, where does the u.s. end up? in a downward spiral where violence begets more violence. where it becomes normalized. and where we all suffer. media outlets have to connect these dots. it is an essential story right now. so let s talk more about it with cnn s senior political analyst ron brownstein, republican strategist sarah longwell and, tom, all of this violence, these threats, these ads, what do you think is causing it? what is at the core of this? i think there s a complex relationship here between the internet, which lowers the cost of making threats, you know,
the court overturning the landmark roe v. wade decision. for many, it has been an outpouring of anger and disbelief as more than two dozen states have indicated they could ban or restrict abortion. abortion bans are illegitimate. forced motherhood is illegitimate. reporter: from washington, d.c. to los angeles, and cities in between, abortion rights protesters continue to voice their anguish, following a ruling by the u.s. supreme court eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion. i m angry, i m fired up. the fight is not over. people did this fight 50 years ago. i guess it is our turn to take the fight up again. it may take us 50 years, but we ll get back. reporter: there were small gatherings of people celebrating the ruling. millions of lives will be saved by this decision. reporter: in iowa, a pedestrian was injured by a truck while trying to legally cross the street in front of the federal courthouse during friday evening s protests.
gotten intense. law enforcement officers deploying tear gas on abortion rights protesters. tell me about your level of concern about the impact of this ruling on your state. it s a huge concern upon the impact in my state, but across the country. we basically just all the women that they have no control over their bodies. that the government now controls their very private decisions, private medical decisions. this is an awful thing. and we need to recognize it s an awful thing. women are going to hurt, women are going to die, some women are going to, unfortunately, be scarred for life. because six justices, many of which were appointed by an unpopular and legitimate president, has decided that they know better than what women want with their bodies. we can do it we need to do everything we can to overturn this decision. that includes the senate, they need to get rid of the syllabus there and passed the roe v. wade protection that had passed
about what is happening at 15 weeks. what is the mother having? it s not a lizard. it is a baby. so, it s really not even abortion that some of the pro choice protesters are speaking to today, but a range of issues they feel is at risk. griff: i was out there all day yesterday and it was peaceful and peaceful today and struck by many of the facts that the abortion rights protesters are young. they were clearly not alive in 1973 and yet, they seem to be among the loudest. what is the makeup that you see there today? well, certainly the loudest and i would say represent the bulk of the people out here today. there have been a couple older activists who say, hey, i will have spent most of my life with the protections that now you do not have. so, yeah, there s been a lot of talk perhaps the way that these women will grow up differently